Comment by jen729w
4 years ago
Oh, wow. And 9 years old. Thanks for showing me this.
People do just naturally put numbers in front of things, though, and I’m convinced it’s to solve the muscle-memory issue. Or it’s that I generally work with nerds and we find it easier to remember that our folder is 34 in the list of 67 rather than remembering that it’s ‘SQL designs’ or whatever.
I mean literally back at a major bank 15 years ago the root structure just had numbers in front of every folder. Long before I meddled with it.
FWIW, I've seen a number of financial systems, and even though accounts in the hierarchy might have names, they often have a hierarchically-oriented number with them.
e.g. Accounts Receivable #15000, A/R for Foo Corp #15001 and so on.
Some accounting laws actually mandate a numbered system of accounts that is a bit like Johnny Decimal, just without subdividing for specific companies (though it's definitely possible in some approaches - it's just that you need to categorize according to official hierarchy as well)